Whats holding ~100% D GUI back?
rikki cattermole
rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Wed Nov 27 17:29:13 UTC 2019
On 28/11/2019 6:08 AM, Gregor Mückl wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 November 2019 at 16:34:33 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
>>> Having said that, there's applications that definitely should be
>>> accessible. There's others where a certain kind of accessibility
>>> support is just not possible. Screen readers and Photoshop obviously
>>> make little sense in combination, for example. And accessibility is
>>> different from automation. There's different APIs for that on
>>> different platforms.
>>>
>>> So, in general, I'm still not seeing a proper justification for not
>>> building on top of the work that already exists in dlangUI.
>>
>> UI automation API's is how accessibility programs like screen readers
>> work.
>>
>> "Microsoft UI Automation is an accessibility framework that enables
>> Windows applications to provide and consume programmatic information
>> about user interfaces (UIs). It provides programmatic access to most
>> UI elements on the desktop. It enables assistive technology products,
>> such as screen readers, to provide information about the UI to end
>> users and to manipulate the UI by means other than standard input. UI
>> Automation also allows automated test scripts to interact with the
>> UI." -
>> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/entry-uiauto-win32
>
> No, this is only how Microsoft chose to name their accessibility
> interface. Google and Apple use accessibility as the relevant term,
> including in their actual API naming. The same goes for Gtk and Qt,
> which are the most common implementations of accessibility features on
> top of X11 (sadly, the X protocol doesn't have any notion of
> accessibility itself). Please don't use the single outlier's unique terms.
"Action methods. The NSAccessibility protocol also defines a number of
methods that simulate button presses, mouse clicks and selections in
your view or control. By implementing these methods, you give
accessibility clients the ability to drive your view or control."
1. The user says, “Open Preferences window.”
2. The screen reader sends a message to the app’s accessible element,
asking for a reference to the menu bar accessible element. It then
queries the menu bar for a list of its children and queries each child
for its title. As soon as it finds the one whose title matches app’s
name (that is, the application menu). A second iteration lets it find
the Preferences menu item within the application menu. Finally, the
screen reader tells the Preferences menu item to perform the press action.
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Accessibility/Conceptual/AccessibilityMacOSX/OSXAXmodel.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40001078-CH208-TPXREF101
Sounds like UI automation to me. Regardless of what they named it.
And for ATK which is Gtk's library:
https://developer.gnome.org/atk/stable/AtkAction.html
"AtkAction should be implemented by instances of AtkObject classes with
which the user can interact directly, i.e. buttons, checkboxes,
scrollbars, e.g. components which are not "passive" providers of UI
information."
Sounds like UI automation to me even if accessibility centric.
From QT with regards to accessibility support on Windows:
"Also, the new UI Automation support in Qt may become useful for
application testing, since it can provide metadata and programmatic
control of UI elements, which can be leveraged by automated test suites
and other tools."
https://www.qt.io/blog/2018/02/20/qt-5-11-brings-new-accessibility-backend-windows
Linux support is hard to find anything solid on for QT, but they do have
support for ATK bundled with it as part of AT-SPI2 specification.
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